MMU related code

Carter Cheng cartercheng at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 04:01:02 EDT 2018


Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:45 PM Steffen Vogel <post at steffenvogel.de> wrote:

> Hi Carter,
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 03:33:02PM +0800, Carter Cheng wrote:
> > Is the /mm directory the correct place to look? It seems to contain
> memory
> > related code but from what little I have read it seems at a higher level
> > building in some cases at least on kmalloc.
>
> Most if the paging/MMU code is also architecture specific which means
> that it resides in the arch/mm subfolders.
>
> I saw that there was a MM 101 presentation last week at the Open Source
> Summit [1], Unfortunatetly, it is quite high-level and most likelt
> uninterestting to you.
>
> But there is also a huge subsection in the official kernel documentation
> which has many references to the mm/ and arch/mm code [2].
>
> Cheers,
> Steffen
>
>
> [1]
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/MM-101-Introduction-to-Linux-Memory-Management-Christoph-Lameter-Jump-Trading-LLC.pdf
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/vm/index.html
>
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